Golden-ringed Dragonfly on Iris leaves by durleybeachbum
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Description
Cordulegaster boltonii in my garden yesterday.
I was thrilled when it finally stopped for a moment: I was getting dizzy watching it flash about endlessly.
Another shot Here
Comments (23)
Paulienchen
fantastisches Bild
johndoop
Excellent picture !!!!!!!!!!
dakotabluemoon
Oh i love this one hon one great capture.
Faemike55
Very beautiful dragonfly Great capture
Mark-David-Rogers
Wow! a wonderful capture and a fine specimen. If you need to observe delicate beauty in nature just look closely at those wings, I would say beautiful.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Superb! Great shot Andrea!
jendellas
Glad it stopped long enough for you to take this super pic!!
sharky_
Wonderful capture. Aloha
pat40
Wonderful capture Andrea
MrsRatbag
Wow!!! This is fantastic! I'm also drawn to the ripple in the that one leaf, I love how they do this!
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
helanker
Very beautiful indeed.
moochagoo
ou lucky man to get this one :)
sandra46
GREAT CAPTURE
wysiwig
Two superb images. It seems to have something on its wing (pollen?). The bio-diversity in your garden is stunning.
photosynthesis
Patience triumphs - great capture & worth the wait...
whaleman
Both are splendid shots!
Juliette.Gribnau
awesome !!
goodoleboy
In two words, UTTERLY AWESOME!
danapommet
An amazing close-up photo Andrea. Fantastic details and clarity!
Rhanagaz
Nice it showed coorporative to you - great capture!! :o)
Katraz
Wow he looks big.
anahata.c
Re your description, I've actually paid flying-insects to stop for me: They took the money, but didn't stop. If you say, "do I have to stand here all day"---bupkiss. Nothin'. They don't give a fig. Worse than street photography. But Andrea, this is a gem! You have the fly on a perfect angle to the stalks: The angles are well-balanced, as if you'd posed the d.fly there. The yellow-green of the d.fly brings out the yellow-greens of the stalks. The light is strong and sharp. And the texture of its wings cross so nicely with the most textured stalks. And then the background breaks in where it ought to, giving dark contrasts to the whole: I mean it's like a studio shot. Your wait wasn't in vain! (Insects make terrible models, btw, but I've had a vision of walking into a studio where insects are all sitting around reading magazines, while one beetle is being primped for a shoot...) A symphony in yellows and greens; and a shout-out of a shot---love it. Hope to be back for more soon, Andrea. Always a pleasure! (if I wrote shorter comments, I could do every image I miss. Buuuuuuuut, that's not in the realm of possibility, unfortunately.) (Ok, you wanna hear an insect joke? Ok. This moth goes to an endocrinologist, starts to weep, and says: "I've had the worst night! I tossed and turned about my life, thought about my wife getting ill: What if she dies? Will I make it without her? Thought about my son, who has a rare condition and needs my attention, thought about the futility of life, the desperation of trying to find a moment of happiness in an empty universe, thought about the ennui of work, the ennui of love, the ennui of faith or no faith---I'm broken into pieces, doctor, dejected, caught in a swirl of existential nausée---god, please: Help me!" The endocrinologist says, "lord, that's quite a story! But I'm an endocrinologist: You need a psychotherapist! Why did you come to me???" And the moth says: "The light was on..." Ooookay, that's the best I could come up with. Have a good day, Andrea!)